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Immigration Enforcement Actions

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) engages in immigration enforcement actions to prevent unlawful entry into the United States and to apprehend and repatriate noncitizens who have violated or failed to comply with U.S. immigration laws. Primary responsibility for the enforcement of immigration law within DHS rests with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). CBP enforces immigration laws at and between the ports of entry, ICE is responsible for interior enforcement and for detention and removal operations, and USCIS adjudicates applications and petitions for immigration and naturalization benefits.

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Office of Homeland Security Statistics Resources​​​​​​

Report Title (Link to Report) Report Description
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics This annual report includes a collection of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who were the subject of enforcement actions, including noncitizen inadmissibility determinations, apprehensions, removals, and returns. It also includes tables on those who were granted lawful permanent residence; were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis; applied for asylum or refugee status; or were naturalized.

Immigration Enforcement and Legal Processes Monthly Tables

This set of tables includes monthly data on immigration enforcement including encounters, CBP One appointments, administrative arrests, book-out outcomes, book-ins, detention, removals, returns, repatriations. It also includes data on credible fear screenings and parole processes.
Immigration Enforcement Actions Annual Flow Report This annual report presents data and analysis of immigration enforcement actions including CBP Office of Field Operations determinations of inadmissibility; CBP U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions; ICE administrative arrests and intakes into immigration detention; and DHS-wide initiations of removal proceedings, repatriations, and expulsions.
Enforcement Lifecycle Reports This report series matches unique border encounters to their associated enforcement outcomes.
Border Security Metrics Report This report series provides the most comprehensive, rigorous set of border security metrics ever produced by DHS, along with a thorough discussion of the strengths and limitations of the Department’s available methodological approaches.
Southwest Border Enforcement Report This report describes numbers of border encounters and the Department’s enforcement response.
Efforts by DHS to Estimate Southwest Border Security between Ports of Entry This report describes recent and ongoing efforts by DHS and USBP to better estimate southwest border security between POEs and to increase situational awareness at the border.
Family Unit Actions Report This monthly report provides data on the number of children separated from their parents at the border by date, location, age, nationality, and the basis for the separation.
Migrant Protection Protocols Cohort Reports These reports describe Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) processing and outcomes for noncitizens enrolled in MPP within given time periods, summarizing information on enrollee nationalities, fear claims, vaccinations, and processing outcomes (returns to Mexico or disenrollments) by month of MPP enrollment.
Asylum Processing Rule Cohort Reports
This monthly report describes processing and outcomes under a new rule–to ensure those subject to expedited removal who are eligible for asylum are granted relief quickly and those who are not are promptly removed–for noncitizens identified as potentially suitable for placement in the rule, as well as demographic information about the population placed in the rule.
Last Updated: 01/05/2024
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